Post by AlwaysAnAztec on Aug 13, 2009 13:25:42 GMT -8
These pretty well express my thoughts and feelings on the subject.
The antithesis of democracy
Recent letters in the North County Times compare President Obama's public option plan to a socialist plot. Other government plans -- Social Security and Medicare -- exist because they're efficient, needed and wanted by the vast majority of Americans. Is this socialism?
With millions of campaign contributions, the health-care insurance industry has purchased six key members of the Senate Finance Committee. And purchased cheaply. These senators, from thinly populated states, find raising money from small donors difficult and rely on corporate donors, who, of course, realize their money goes farther in a small state. More bang for the buck!
Voting their pocketbook, those senators delayed consideration of the bill, allegedly to give the nation an opportunity to understand what was at stake. Yet a fringe group of boisterous bullies -- encouraged and organized by Republicans and financed by the health-care insurance industry -- disrupt reform-minded congressmen at town hall meetings and deny the public its right to learn details of the proposed reforms.
This strategy comes from a master politician, a communist. In a political pamphlet, "What is to be done?" Lenin advocated hiring paid agitators to disrupt and create unrest. Paying agitators is a Communist strategy, the very antithesis of democracy.
Zoltan Lucas, M.D.
Oceanside
Recent letters in the North County Times compare President Obama's public option plan to a socialist plot. Other government plans -- Social Security and Medicare -- exist because they're efficient, needed and wanted by the vast majority of Americans. Is this socialism?
With millions of campaign contributions, the health-care insurance industry has purchased six key members of the Senate Finance Committee. And purchased cheaply. These senators, from thinly populated states, find raising money from small donors difficult and rely on corporate donors, who, of course, realize their money goes farther in a small state. More bang for the buck!
Voting their pocketbook, those senators delayed consideration of the bill, allegedly to give the nation an opportunity to understand what was at stake. Yet a fringe group of boisterous bullies -- encouraged and organized by Republicans and financed by the health-care insurance industry -- disrupt reform-minded congressmen at town hall meetings and deny the public its right to learn details of the proposed reforms.
This strategy comes from a master politician, a communist. In a political pamphlet, "What is to be done?" Lenin advocated hiring paid agitators to disrupt and create unrest. Paying agitators is a Communist strategy, the very antithesis of democracy.
Zoltan Lucas, M.D.
Oceanside
Health care: Have I done enough?
Recently, I have been to three protests to demand a public option on health care for all citizens in this country. I delivered petitions with 375,000 signatures supporting the public option to Rep. Darrell Issa, and Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. I have written letters to congressional leaders to include Kennedy, Kerry, Baucus, Boxer, Feinstein and Nelson, in support of health care reform. I cannot count how many e-mails I have sent to Congress and my e-mail list of friends and family, and yet
I feel as though I have not done enough.
I want to scream to the people of this country to wake up! You are being lied to by big pharmaceutical and insurance companies; yet you sleep. They are spending billions to scare you and line the pockets of Congress; yet you sleep.
The insurance companies, with their endless funds, are organizing far-right groups to sabotage town hall meetings; yet you sleep. They have taken over your health and the health of your family with high costs and poor health care; and you sleep. ...
You can see why they will do anything to stop a public option, and why we can't let them win.
Madison Lang
Oceanside
Recently, I have been to three protests to demand a public option on health care for all citizens in this country. I delivered petitions with 375,000 signatures supporting the public option to Rep. Darrell Issa, and Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein. I have written letters to congressional leaders to include Kennedy, Kerry, Baucus, Boxer, Feinstein and Nelson, in support of health care reform. I cannot count how many e-mails I have sent to Congress and my e-mail list of friends and family, and yet
I feel as though I have not done enough.
I want to scream to the people of this country to wake up! You are being lied to by big pharmaceutical and insurance companies; yet you sleep. They are spending billions to scare you and line the pockets of Congress; yet you sleep.
The insurance companies, with their endless funds, are organizing far-right groups to sabotage town hall meetings; yet you sleep. They have taken over your health and the health of your family with high costs and poor health care; and you sleep. ...
You can see why they will do anything to stop a public option, and why we can't let them win.
Madison Lang
Oceanside
What's so bad about government health?
I just received an e-mail alert from a "conservative" Web site urging me to act now to stop government#)run health care. As a retired member of the military who has been the beneficiary of government#)run health care for nearly 40 years, I'm forced to conclude the folks at Townhall.com (along with pretty much all opponents of single-payer socialized health care) are either horribly misinformed, seriously stupid or unprincipled shills for the big corporate health insurance interests.
I've had access to numerous private health insurance plans through my employer for years, and I have yet to see even one that I would swap for my "government-run" plan. Virtually all are so inadequate, limited, complex and ridiculously expensive that the only way I would possibly even consider signing up for one (which I wouldn't) is specifically because I have a "government-run" plan as a fallback for all the things the private plans don't cover.
If you're not on the phone every day demanding your elected representatives support a worthwhile Medicare-style, single-payer public option in the pending health care reform legislation before Congress, all I can say is good luck with your private for-profit plan.
Wayne Strache
San Marcos
I just received an e-mail alert from a "conservative" Web site urging me to act now to stop government#)run health care. As a retired member of the military who has been the beneficiary of government#)run health care for nearly 40 years, I'm forced to conclude the folks at Townhall.com (along with pretty much all opponents of single-payer socialized health care) are either horribly misinformed, seriously stupid or unprincipled shills for the big corporate health insurance interests.
I've had access to numerous private health insurance plans through my employer for years, and I have yet to see even one that I would swap for my "government-run" plan. Virtually all are so inadequate, limited, complex and ridiculously expensive that the only way I would possibly even consider signing up for one (which I wouldn't) is specifically because I have a "government-run" plan as a fallback for all the things the private plans don't cover.
If you're not on the phone every day demanding your elected representatives support a worthwhile Medicare-style, single-payer public option in the pending health care reform legislation before Congress, all I can say is good luck with your private for-profit plan.
Wayne Strache
San Marcos
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